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Workshop Culture Alison Coward

Workshop Culture By Alison Coward

Workshop Culture by Alison Coward

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What if every day at work felt like your team's most productive 'away day'? Don't just run a workshop: create a Workshop Culture.

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Workshop Culture: A guide to building teams that thrive by Alison Coward

What if every day at work felt like your team's most productive 'away day'?

The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly collaborative, creative and productive - you will find the principles of great workshops infused throughout their culture.

This is a book about how running great workshops, and taking inspiration from them, can lead to a great team environment. Workshop Culture will show you how to create a happy and engaged team through small actions which lead to big results. It features a practical and accessible toolkit to help improve your team's performance and productivity.

Workshop Culture gives you:

  • Inspiring case studies from forward-thinking and innovative teams that have found success from a workshop culture
  • A structured methodology that you can follow to bring more happiness, productivity and engagement to your team
  • Practical exercises to help you build new skills and knowledge, and increase impact at work

Alison Coward is a team culture coach, consultant and founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to build high-performing, collaborative team cultures.

About Alison Coward

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with forward-thinking organisations to help them build high-performing teams. She is a facilitator, coach, trainer and keynote speaker. With 20 years' experience of working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about helping teams to thrive and do their best work.

Table of Contents

Introduction

  • My experience
  • What is a 'workshop culture'
  • How to use this book

PART 1: IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM Chapter 1: The impact of the problem

  • The challenge of true collaboration
  • Impact 1: bad meetings
  • Impact 2: low engagement
  • Impact 3: lack of purpose

Chapter 2: Why workshops are the solution

  • Why great workshops lead to great team cultures
  • What you are designing for in a workshop culture

PART 2: INTRODUCING WORKSHOP CULTURE

Chapter 3: Understanding workshop culture

  • The four foundations of a workshop culture
  • Foundation 1: workshops are more than a one-off event
  • Foundation 2: a constant balance between creativity and productivity
  • Foundation 3: make tiny tweaks, not sweeping changes
  • Foundation 4: a workshop culture is designed

Chapter 4: Leading a workshop culture

  • The role of a change agent
  • Collaboration: a collaboration mindset
  • Facilitation: there's something about facilitation
  • Strategic thinking: important, but not urgent
  • Design mindset: designing for culture change
  • Turning ideas to action
  • Behaviour change
  • If you can run great workshops, you can implement a workshop culture

PART 3: THE FRAMEWORK The five-pillar framework for high-performing teams Chapter 5: Alignment - seeing the bigger picture

  • Dynamic and fluid teams
  • The bigger picture - setting your team's direction: alignment, clarity and purpose
  • Strategy development - ideas into action
  • Crystallizing team values

Chapter 6: Cohesion - self-awareness

  • Balancing the team and individual
  • Individual productivity, team productivity
  • Building empathy for team cohesion

Chapter 7: Communication - meetings and workshops

  • Impactful meetings use design and facilitation
  • The responsibility of a meeting facilitator
  • Make your meetings more workshop-like
  • Facilitation techniques to improve your meetings
  • A holistic look at our meetings

Chapter 8: Design - designing ways of working

  • Team culture as a product in development
  • Designing routines and rituals over 'teambuilding'
  • Optimising team productivity - what design can address
  • Designing connection

Chapter 9: Change - continuous improvement

  • A new approach to change
  • Understanding behaviour change
  • Tools and techniques to initiate and sustain change
  • Building a workshop culture - a blended approach to change

Conclusion

Toolkit

Workshop Culture: A Guide to Building Teams That Thrive (summary)

References

Additional information

NGR9781788605700
9781788605700
1788605705
Workshop Culture: A guide to building teams that thrive by Alison Coward
Alison Coward
New
Hardback
Practical Inspiration Publishing
2023-11-21
230
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